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The Short Fiction of Thomas Hardy

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First published: 1913
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Story 1 A Changed Man, Chapters 1-4
27:17
Story 1 A Changed Man, Chapters 5-7
16:44
Story 2 The Waiting Supper, Chapters 1-4
58:23
Story 2 The Waiting Supper, Chapters 5-8
58:49
Story 3 Alicia's Diary, Chapters 1-3
21:06
Story 3 Alicia's Diary, Chapters 4-6
33:55
Story 3 Alicia's Diary, Chapters 7-10
33:10
Story 4 The Grave By The Handpost
27:46
Story 5 Enter A Dragoon
47:20
Story 6 A Tryst At An Ancient Earthwork
30:55
Story 7 What The Shepherd Saw
51:05
Story 8 A Committee Man Of 'The Terror'
33:49
Story 9 Master John Horseleigh, Knight
30:47
Story 10 The Duke's Reappearance
19:04
Story 11 A Mere Interlude, Chapters 1-4
43:42
Story 11 A Mere Interlude, Chapters 5-7
38:09

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About this book

Thomas Hardy is best remembered for his novels, but across his career he also wrote dozens of short stories, and this collection gathers them. Most unfold in his invented Wessex, the rural southwest of England where old customs, rigid class lines, and stubborn passions collide. In 'A Changed Man,' a dashing cavalry officer startles everyone by abandoning the army to become a clergyman; other tales turn on chance meetings, thwarted love, and the small ironies that quietly reshape a life. Hardy brings the same fatalism and feeling for the countryside that mark his longer books, compressed here into sharper and often stranger episodes. Readers who know Tess or Jude will recognize the same world in miniature.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction, set in a half-imagined Wessex, probed fate, class, and the constraints of Victorian society. His major novels are cornerstones of English literature.